Here are the simple book page ornaments we've made for our little tabletop trees, including a punched paper snowflake garland, Mod Podged balls and these pretty little origami flowers. I love the look of a vintage black and white Christmas with all these elements.
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For cheap and easy Christmas decor, you can't go wrong with recycled book pages. One of my favorite projects are these book page flowers.
I call them Post It Note Flowers because they work up beautifully using a 3" x 3" square of paper, so in a leap of naming logic there ya go. They are really origami kusadama flowers and they've been around forever. I'll give you a link to an origami website at the end of this post in case my instructions lead you hopelessly astray. ; 0 )
I call them Post It Note Flowers because they work up beautifully using a 3" x 3" square of paper, so in a leap of naming logic there ya go. They are really origami kusadama flowers and they've been around forever. I'll give you a link to an origami website at the end of this post in case my instructions lead you hopelessly astray. ; 0 )
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We've made ours out of vintage dictionary pages to go along with our simple white Christmas theme.
And the Live, Laugh, Love ornaments? Simply book pages cut into small rectangles then Mod Podged onto Christmas balls. I hand wrote the words on each ball with a Pigma pen, then sealed them all with clear acrylic. You could also use a Cricut or Silhouette for the words, or print them and cut them out to match the book pages and Mod Podge them on. Simple, pretty and inexpensive. We like!
Here is a link to a real origami website with great instructions and lots of samples for these pretty flowers...
And the Live, Laugh, Love ornaments? Simply book pages cut into small rectangles then Mod Podged onto Christmas balls. I hand wrote the words on each ball with a Pigma pen, then sealed them all with clear acrylic. You could also use a Cricut or Silhouette for the words, or print them and cut them out to match the book pages and Mod Podge them on. Simple, pretty and inexpensive. We like!
Here is a link to a real origami website with great instructions and lots of samples for these pretty flowers...
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/origami_kusadama_flowers
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Those are so pretty! Thanks for the instructions!
ReplyDeleteSoooo sweet Ann!! I love that you made them out of dictionary pages - they are so pretty and simple! Thanks for the great tutorial!
ReplyDeleteHow really lovely! I have to dig out my glue gun for all my Christmas projects!! Hope you are feeling well...
ReplyDeleteHello! I love turning recycled stuff into something beautiful! It's cheap and smart isnt it?! I love what you did to the christmas balls. I am thinking of making the same project :)
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Myric
These are great- thanks for the tutorial :D
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z
Love these flowers. thanks for the tutorial...I'm going to try some of these:-)
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Kathleen
such cute flowers--tfs the tut:) these would look great on packages, too!
ReplyDeleteI love all of your book page decorations!
ReplyDeleteThey are all cute, but I love the dictionary flowers and the snowflakes especially! Thanks for showing us how to make those flowers. They are really unique.
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